On one hand, this easily is the raddest helmet ever, constantly demonstrating how fabulous you are as you zip through intersections bedazzling pedestrians and motorists alike while belting out ABBA tunes, leaving freshly seared retinas in your wake. On the other hand, actually getting into an accident while wearing this thing might turn a normally harmless collision into a horrifyingly disfiguring one for your face:

I don’t see any significant change in safety with this helmet…and it looks sweet!

The glass pieces are quite light. So they wouldn’t hurt you just falling onto your face. The only added danger would be if your face slid across a surface covered with pieces of glass. But really any road will do about the same.

The glass may actually help as it is one more layer of material that absorbs energy (in this case energy to fracture) that will not be transferred to your head.

Hmm, doesn’t anyone think that this could be potentially hazardous by the obvious fact that it could ‘blind’ drivers/other bicyclists and cause more accidents than protect from? Quite distracting and severe light is reflected from those little mirror pieces..

Not sure if you mean me, but since Traumatic Brain Injury isn’t the top cause of injuries in bike crashes, and 98% of your body isn’t covered by a helmet, I don’t see why helmets are such a fetish of so many people.

I wouldn’t tell you not to wear a helmet if you want to, but just remember, it isn’t a magic forcefield or some kind of talisman that magically makes you safe.

And if you want to argue degrees of safety/prevention, then why don’t you wear a helmet when you shower, ride MUNI, or walk up a flight of stairs?